The Midway Review
The Midway Review is a nonpartisan journal of intelligent political and cultural commentary and criticism at the University of Chicago.
Update on Fall 2020 Issue:
We hope you have all been doing as safe and well as possible over the last several months.
When we set out to revive The Midway Review last Fall Quarter, we were living in a completely different world. We could not have predicted the scale of the upheavals in all facets of our personal and social lives that have occurred within the last half-year.
After thoughtful deliberation, we have decided to indefinitely postpone the slate of articles initially planned for Spring 2020 (and later moved to Fall 2020). We came to this decision for two main reasons:
First, we are unsure about the logistics required for a successful online and print issue in the fall: the capacity to format and publish your pieces online or in print without resources from the Regenstein Library, which we will have limited access to under the administration’s restart plan; whether the printer we had planned on working with is still in operation; how to organize distribution in a campus setting where large social gatherings will be discouraged or banned, etc.
Second, in its history The Midway Review has sought to publish pieces on “pertinent cultural and political topics.” True to this ethos, we find it imperative that the work we publish is in dialogue with the world in which those pieces are published. We feel that it would seem jarring and insensitive for us to put out a slate of articles not explicitly related to the various issues that are affecting our readers in this moment. As Editors, we feel a responsibility to ensure that your work is done justice to, and shared with readers in a climate in which they can be properly received.
We are tentatively considering an issue that explicitly addresses the pandemic, the Movement for Black Lives, and any other aspect of the general global upheaval that we find ourselves experiencing. In addition, we will publish an announcement when we decide to resume work on this planned slate. We welcome any and all feedback on this idea, as well as on the decision to postpone the Fall 2020 issue.
Please do not hesitate to reach out with questions and concerns.
Wishing you all safety, stability, and health,
The Midway Review Editors
01/23/2020
After a two-year hiatus, The Midway Review, a journal of longform essays by students within UChicago and without, is back! We cover a broad range of subjects: politics and current events, literary and cultural criticism, book and film reviews, religion, philosophy, and history. We are also looking for short, reflective personal essays on pertinent cultural and political topics.
In brief, we are looking for articles that are articulate, well argued, and generally interesting - essays in the original sense of the term: thoughtful attempts, not academic papers.
We are sending out a call for submissions for the Spring 2020 volume, due by Friday, April 3. To send in a piece for consideration, please email it as an editable Word document to [email protected] and include your year and major, or other relevant biographical information if you are not a UChicago student.
There is no upper word limit for submissions, however we would like them to be at least 1,000 words in order to allow for the full development of a topic. In your piece, please cite fully with endnotes rather than footnotes. We do not accept submissions that have been published elsewhere.
To get a better sense of The Midway Review, it may also be helpful to check out our past issues, which can be downloaded as PDFs from our website's archive (http://midwayreview.uchicago.edu/archive/).
Please feel free to send any questions, ideas, or thoughts that you might have to our email, [email protected].
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The Midway Review has postponed its Fall 2020 issue indefinitely. Full details of our decision can be found in the pinned post on the page. Please visit our website for more information.
~About the Review~
The Midway Review publishes once each quarter, featuring articles that are both informed and accessible to a generally educated audience. We welcome submissions from all U of C students, alumni, and faculty, as well as writers from outside the university community. We cover a broad range of subjects: politics and current events, literary and cultural criticism, book and film reviews, religion, philosophy, and history. We are also looking for short, reflective personal essays on pertinent cultural and political topics.
In brief, we are looking for pieces that are articulate, well argued, and generally interesting - essays in the original sense of the term: thoughtful attempts, not academic papers.
~Submission Guidelines~
There is no upper word limit for submissions, however we would like them to be at least 1,000 words in order to allow for the full development of a topic. Submissions should include the author's year and major, or other relevant biographical information if the author is not a U of C student. In your piece, please cite fully with endnotes rather than footnotes. We do not accept submissions that have been published elsewhere. Submissions can be sent to [email protected].
If you think you’d like to contribute, please do not hesitate to contact us. You can email the Review’s Editors-in-Chief, Jonathan Chung (lyjchung at uchicago.edu), Sophie Salvato (sophiasalvato at uchicago.edu), and Brent DeVries (devriesbp at uchicago.edu), with any questions, ideas, or thoughts that you might have.
To get a better sense of The Midway Review, it may also be helpful to check out our past issues, which can be downloaded as PDFs from our website's archive.
~The Midway Editors~
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Jonathan Chung, Sophie Salvato, Brent DeVries
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